Northeast Fresno Colorado Grill vandalized again, glass door shattered

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A shattered storefront has go a show each excessively acquainted for 1 Northeast Fresno restaurant.

"I propulsion up, and of course, the windows smashed. I utilized to panic coming into these situations, but present I'm conscionable utilized to it, I guess," said Hossein Nekumanesh, proprietor of Colorado Grill connected Herndon and Blackstone.

In the past 5 years alone, the owners accidental they've experienced astir 20 akin incidents of vandals smashing their windows oregon solid doors to get inside.

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Nekumanesh says the perpetrators typically usage ample rocks to interruption the glass, but Saturday, they employed a antithetic tool.

"This time, they grabbed the grate from the sewage, and threw that done the window," helium said.

For a locally owned edifice similar this burger joint, the repair costs adhd up rapidly and they can't spend accrued information equipment.

But they besides can't spend to enactment unopen down.

Colorado Grill was backmost to serving customers with a boarded-up doorway Sunday night.

"I'll get the committee up company, comes and they complaint five, six 100 bucks. Glass is usually, I'd person to ballpark it, astir apt betwixt 1 and 2 thousand. And past sometimes they bargain things, this clip they stole an iPad," Nekumanesh said.

Despite the endless frustration, the proprietor believes determination is simply a deeper contented astatine the basal of the vandalism.

Sitting close disconnected of the Highway 41 overpass, helium says the country struggles with unhoused residents and substance maltreatment issues.

"It's not a idiosyncratic attack, it's a societal problem. You person a postulation of radical who either request help, oregon are determination for immoderate reason. Other things spark up from that."